A Mega-Shift Is Coming; Or Is That a Mega MAGA?
God’s people prayed. God responded, and a God thing happened.
The election of Trump in such a convincing manner was a God thing. Pundits are offering numerous explanations as to why Harris lost. They don’t get it. God was present and at work November 4, 2024, and the potential transformation of America was begun and along with it a global shift transpired. Governments around the world took note.
Many believe in God having been the enabling force in the election. Those and others now need to pray more than ever.
When Reagan was president there was international uncertainty until 11,000 air controllers threatened an illegal strike. President Reagan said, “If you do, I will fire you.” They struck and were unceremoniously fired. Russia principally, but other nations alike said we need to be cautious, this man means what he says.
Once more there is a global sigh resulting from knowing we have a president who means what he says.
Indications are we are about to be unfettered from a WOKE, DEI agenda. The best qualified persons will get the jobs regardless of skin tone.
The candidate with the fewest votes l-o-s-t. That is the way it has always worked. Inconceivable the current losers haven’t caught on as of yet. They are still in a lugubrious state of mind. By the time they work through their grief they will awaken to find themselves in a brave new world.
Then the battle will begin. There is no indication the losers are going to react constructively, but contentiously. They will be recalcitrant and tetchy.
The task before President Trump is a big one. Opponents can be expected to exploit even the slightest misstep. They will try to eviscerate every objective. The secular national media will be in the vanguard of efforts to degrade his administration.
Rebuilding our military will be a major task. DEI has demoralized our armed forces. Some of our generals say that our equipment and munitions are so low we would run out of combat ability in two weeks in a war with China.
How to remove the thousands of illegal aliens will be an emotional task. Rebuilding our border defenses will at times appear to be a heartless endeavor.
Entire departments, such as the FBI and Justice departments will require time, money, and personnel.
In general, a governmental makeover is coming. Let’s not rule out God in this undertaking. Doing all this in His way is important. On this end of the line prayer is needed. Don’t fail our nation after such a miraculous time.
Pray for President Elect Trump
And now. . . . ?
The Presidential election is over. President Trump was the decided winner. I know not all who view my Posts always agree with me. I respect them, as I do all my Friends, however I must acknowledge my prayers were answered as those of many of you were and President Trump will be our 47th President.
It is now incumbent that pro and con Trumpites unite in praying even more for him. In doing so we will be complying with Scripture that tells us to pray for those in authority. It really is selfish to do so because being under his authority we benefit from good guidance. Therefore, resolutely commit to supporting him with prayer.
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It would be difficult to find evidence America has not been blessed. Why has it been blessed? The fact that this country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles is so evident in early documents and inscriptions on historic buildings and monuments that it can’t be denied.
Another principle that’s evident in Psalm 33 is God will remove his hand of blessing from the nation that forsakes him. “The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the people.” (Psalm 33:10) Psalm 9:17 states clearly, “The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God”.
Saluting the flag, standing at attention during the national anthem, singing, “God bless America”, and voting faithfully are not the most patriotic things you can do for this country. We help America most by living a Godly life. “For the Lord loves righteousness …. (Psalm 33:5).
The Bible teaches that any attempt to govern without God is doomed to fail.
“No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them.
We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you” (Psalm 33:16-2). Pray that.
God and only God can redirect America from the impending doom. He has often used a human being as His change agent. We need such a person today. Scanning our society no such perfect person can be chosen from among fallen sinful people. The pages of history tell the story of many imperfect people He has used to achieve His perfect will. There is reason to believe Vox Populi, Vox Dei, that is, “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” May it be proven to be true.
If possible, pause now and pray for President Trump and VP Vance.
Living Crosswise
“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me” (Luke 9: 23).
On the day Jesus spoke these words, everybody knew what Jesus meant. In the Roman world, before a man died on a cross, he had to carry his cross (or at least the horizontal beam of the cross) to the place of execution. Therefore, He was speaking of an ongoing process. That process being a consistent lifestyle commensurate with His. To deny yourself is to live as an others-centered person. That one being Jesus. That prompts us to pray with heart “not my will, but thy will be done.”
Jesus made it clear that He was not speaking on this occasion of physical death, but spiritual by adding the word “daily.” No one could be crucified physically everyday. However, they could daily have the same attitude that Jesus had.
That is, to live as expressed in an old hymn by B. B McKinney entitled “Let Others See Jesus in You:”
“While passing through this world of sin,
And others your life shall view,
Be clean and pure without, within,
Let others see Jesus in you.”
An appeal resulting in fulfillment is found in this: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service” (Romans 12: 1, 2).
When your life is a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,” it is a fulfilling and rewarding life.
Albert Schweitzer, a man of some note, observed, “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among us who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”
Schweitzer’s observation reaches new heights when tweaked to indicate life is most meaningful and fulfilling when it is Jesus we seek to serve. We may serve others, but it should be done in Jesus. name and by His enabling grace.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, “Worthwhile people don’t just happen. You aren’t born worthwhile. You are born with the capacity to be worthwhile. It is your job to discover and develop the person you ought to be.” The person you ought to be is the you willfully and joyfully bearing your cross daily. Start today.
Hide and Seek
Can you say with sincerity and practice with integrity, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You” (Psalm 119: 11)?
Are you continuing to add in your mental storehouse additional Bible principles? Memorization is excellent mental exercise. It is a means of developing mental sharpness. Mental acuity is something to be sought.
To offer a technique for memorization consider II Peter 1: 5 – 9: 5 “…add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.”
At first glance that may appear too much to try to memorize. Try breaking it down as follows and it becomes easier.
“…add to your faith virtue
to virtue knowledge
to knowledge self-control
to self-control perseverance
to perseverance godliness
to godliness brotherly kindness
to brotherly kindness love.
For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.”
It is the principle of how to eat an elephant. Cut it up into bite size pieces.
Once they are memorized, reflect on them often lest you forget them. By reflecting on them they are more likely to become your character traits.
Studies show that having information stored in your memory is what enables you to think critically. Critical thinking leads to the ability to solve problems. The more factual knowledge people have about a topic, the better they can think about it critically and analytically. In other words, the truths become instinctive, your basic nature. When people see information only once, they forget 70 to 80% of it within two weeks. They’re much more likely to remember information if they repeatedly try to recall it after it’s been partially forgotten.
Now you have been provided information on how to memorize Scripture and why, resolve to do it.
Are you practicing the words of God so that at the end of each day you can say, “With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!” (Psalm 119: 10).
God Shed His Grace on America
Christie’s Auction House seems to be the model for our presidential election process. The voters are the auctioneer wanting to get all that is possible. The candidates are the bidders, each trying to top the other by offering more for the office. With each passing day the offers get higher. There is no way any candidate can provide all that is promised. No way.
November 5, 2024 is sure to be one of the most meaningful days in our nation’s history. Regardless of who wins there is sure to be a dramatic change.
One, Trump if elected will undertake the monolithic change of calling us back from the brink of an implosion.
The other, Harris is sure to lead us dramatically into the maze of leftist socialist decline.
Pray for our Lord to have at His disposal a new president open to His leadership. One who may not adhere to the faith as nearly as could be hoped, but one who is disposed to govern in such a way as to advance freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the right of gun ownership.
Consider it is the duty of nations as well as men, to own their dependent upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and the recognition that the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
That did not come from a preacher, but a president. Appropriately quotation marks should be put around that statement and justifiably attributed to a president, President Abraham Lincoln. It is an extract from his March 30, 1863 “Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day.”
Lincoln with his human frailties, like all of us, realized what some today try desperately to deny, there is a spiritual component to life. Until it is properly addressed and dealt with even the utopia promised by candidates would be a Gehenna.
We need a good president to lead us, but no president can do for us what is needed. Government can’t, only God can. The hearts of the people need changing in order for the nation to be changed.
Turn us again Lord, turn us again.
The days are few and the need for God’s people to pray is intensified thereby.
Neither candidate embodies biblical faith, but one mocks it, Harris, and the other, Trump is open to it and an ally of it. You chose which is more open to God.
PRAY – – – PRAY – – – PRAY – – – PRAY!